Love Island winner Cara De La Hoyde says ‘don’t rush things’
The model who won the reality TV show last year is expecting a baby with her love interest from the show, Nathan Massey.
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Pregnant Love Island winner Cara De La Hoyde has urged this year’s contestants not to rush into serious relationships once the show is over, saying a slower pace could have saved her relationship with co-star Nathan Massey.
De La Hoyde and Massey coupled up on the first day of the ITV2 reality show in 2016 and were voted the winners of the love-themed competition.
The duo are expecting their first child together, but ended their relationship just two weeks after finding out about the pregnancy.
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“We jumped in head first, lived together. We still have got so much love for each other, but everything happened so quickly and I think it ruined it.”
Asked if they might have benefited from more traditional dating, she replied: “I think that would have saved us and then moved in a lot later. It was too much.”
She said they were both taken aback by her pregnancy, telling the show: “I was actually in hospital having a cervical examination and then I found out I was pregnant.
“So I didn’t go in to find that, so that was a shock. We are really good, we’re constantly in contact, he knows everything that he needs to know… He was very shocked, just the same as I was, and we tried to make it work, but sometimes it’s better for the baby not to be in that volatile relationship.”
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